The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-07-02
MONTANA NEWS.

! the Mullan tunnel has been completed
and traffic through the tunnel resumed.
9 Artesian wartcr was struck this wecl
on the ranch of W. C. Child, in tht
Prickly Pear valley, at depth of forty
feet
The Drovers hotel in Billings, frame
! structure erected in 1882, was burned or
the morning of tie goth. Loss $4,000
insured for 500.
From all roundups that have so fal
been made it is now calculated that the
, approximate losses in eastern Montana is
about fifty per cent
Paul Mccormick, of junction City,
} was last week fined 500 and costs for
operating ferry across the Yellowstone
without county license.
The Rocky Mountain telegraph COM
pany has offices opened for business at
all points in the United States, and
Canada from Helena northward.
The postotfice at White Sulphur
Springs has been relegated to "a fourth
class, the business having fallen below
the minimum for presidential office.
The total amount of silver and gold
bullion deposited at the United States
assay office at Helena, during the fiscal
year ending June 80, was $1,411, ,911.29.
The Montana Union have decided to
fence their track from Butte to Garrison,
and have let contract for 10000 fence
poles to be used from Race track to Deer
Lodge.
A few days ago fourteen head of fine
horses belonging to John I. Murphy 4
Co., were killed at Moreland by stroke
of lightning The loss amounts to about
$4,000.
A bold thief entered the livery stable
of O'Neill in Helena, Tuesday night,
hitched up and daovc away with team
belonging to the under sheriff of Meagher
county.
Rocco Luiggie Grace, an Italian about
sixty years of age, employed on the
gravel train at Billings, was run over by
car ON Thursday, sustaining serious if
not fatal injuries.
Three hundred stock horses belonging
to Richard Frewen were sold at Miles
City last week to satisfy an $4,000 mort
gage The prices received ranged from
$22 to $35 per head.
A wood chopper named Joe Bratton,
| was found dead in his cabin in Madison
county last week. When found he had
evidently been dead for fortnight and it
is believed he died from heart troubles.
The secretary of the interior has ad
justed the claim of Zook & Anderson, of
Custer county, Montana, for $6,337
caused in 1884, by Cheyenne Indians,
finding the loss at SO, $50, and that amount
was awarded.
Nick Bielenberg brought out three
thousand sheep from Oregon last week on
the Northern Pacific. He unloaded at
Garrison and within six hours thereafter
great per cent Of them died. It is
limited that they were poisoned.
Yellowstone Journal: According to
recent order from department headquar
ters, troop A, Seventh Cavalry will be
ordered to new location in a few days.
This is the only troop of the seventh
stationed at Keogh, and is officered by
Capt Maylon and Lieutenant Fuller.
Robert T. Chapman. a jewelrer lately
in the employ of George Ringwald of
Helena, died at the poor farm in Lewis
and Clark county on Monday, from the
effects of injuries received at the hands
of an unknown man, who attacked him
while in bed at lodging house in Helena.
The fourth annual meeting of the Mon
tana Woolgrowers' association will be
held at Fort Benton, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, July 18th and 18th. AS i'm
portant business concerning transportation
rates are to be considered, full attend
ance is desired. All woolgrowers and
others interested are invited.
Big Horn Sentinel: Between $4,000
and $4,000 head of cattle from the Indian
Territory, New Mexico and Texas will
seek pasture and sale north of the south
line Of Wyoming this year. The Home
Land and Cattle company of St. Louis,
have 5,490 cattle on the cars, which will
be unloaded at Rock Creek or Chugwater,
and then driven to Montana
The fact has just been disclosed that
Colorado capitalists, headed by manager
Great, of the Pueblo works, contemplate
the establishing of capacious reduction
works in Butte. The works will be
made to reduce copper as we'll as silver,
and do custom business for the territory
1t is estimated that a million dollars will
be invested in the initial plant
Miles City had $4,000 blaze last